It has been three years, more or less, since we last heard from the United States’ favorite domestic terrorist cell, the Occupy Wall Street movement. True, Occupiers have popped up here and there for various protests and Walmart has enabled online shoppers to preserve their fond memories of a tented Zucotti Park for $42.75, but for the most part Occupy lies dormant, its body-painted, tattooed, disgruntled and predominantly millennial insurgency smoldering like a chastened volcano.

“Terrorists?” you may balk. Surely not. Perhaps you prefer “freedom fighter?” Your federal government does not hold with such semantics.

This is no exaggeration. The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund was able to obtain over one-hundred pages of FBI documents that labeled the Occupy movement as “domestic terrorists.” These documents were finally released, heavily redacted, after one Freedom of Information Act request and one year of struggle. That was in December 2012.

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"All the while I have been forgetting the third of my reasons for remaining so faithful a citizen of the Federation, despite all the lascivious inducements from expatriates to follow them beyond the seas, and all the surly suggestions from patriots that I succumb. It is for the reason which grows out of my medieval but unashamed taste for the bizarre and indelicate, my congenital weakness for comedy of the grosser varieties. The United States, to my eye, is incomparably the greatest show on earth."